this is you don't use light from berlin and america first it doesn't mean america alone that's what u.s. president donald trump tells the crowd in davos in his closing remarks at the world economic forum he took credit for the booming u.s. economy and attacked unfair global trade practices he said he was held on free will bring us and alison's from davos. the us president makes a sales pitch to the wall street in a double scorning on companies to invest in america i'm headed on for at the world economic forum and i'll have more coming up. finding warnings from washington

turkey bones to expand its controversial offensive against kurds in northern syria president everyone says the operation will extend eastward to where u.s. forces are currently stationed. thank you very much for your company everyone we start our broadcast in switzerland davos where u.s. president donald trump has delivered his much anticipated closing remarks to the world economic forum some said that america is quote open for business and that america first does not mean america alone the president says that he supports free trade but it needs to be fair and reciprocal trump said america's immigration system is stuck in the past. and else the change on his immigration position saying

republicans will accept a path to citizenship almost two million so-called dreamers those are young immigrants brought illegally to the u.s. as children. and there or are going to discuss present time speech in greater detail and bring you an out of the united states i will always put america first just like the leaders of other countries should put their country first also but america first does not mean america alone when the united states grows so does the world. u.s. president addressing davos there low earlier on now i'm joined by professor irwin collier he's a professor at the of economics at berlin's at john f. kennedy institute we're so glad to have you here with us to discuss in greater detail what we just heard the president say america first does not mean america

alone as long as it's in america's interest as long as america remains number one this is fairly clear he was talking about trading rules he wants fair trade everybody wants fair trade but the devil is in the detail what are the rules how do you enforce the rules who enforces the rules and how do you leave something and it's fairly clear he is not a multilateral davos ma'am so he really does appear to believe that america can determine the rules of trade thank you enforce the rules of trade rather than trust its fate in the hands of multilaterally negotiated agreements which is a system that america actually before him has put in place absolutely you know that was much of the legacy of bretton woods institutions and. experience from the great depression that we need each other badly right but he seems keen to up and that let's talk about his presence at davos i mean he was this star of the show what do

you make of the fact that he's the first u.s. president in almost two decades to make an appearance at the world economic forum i think what's also important is you know the last time when bill clinton came it was kind of a last blast tour of a great rock star here it's the beginning of his minutes administration it's also for him it's very important to be accepted by the elites one of the grudges donald trump has carried with him is that he was not accepted by the manhattan elite by the great financial elite and here he is now center stage which is a place that he certainly likes to be he loves the limelight indeed. what's interesting is that he did not very off script it was you know according to you if you go by some of his past features a very subdued speech a lot of people expected him to be combative why do you think it was so subdued i think part of it here when he speaks freely to his people his crowds he is fed

by the energy in the room and i think here he was quite aware that he was not exactly going to be getting a lot of echo from the people he's talking to and so i think that helped him stay on script and i think this was also he had been briefed and there are times when what else is he going to do when he reads the speech and perhaps someone also convinced him that any deviation could get him into complications that he doesn't want down the road perhaps he's learning speaking about complications while he's meeting world leaders and davos switzerland domestic politics are hanging like a dark cloud over him talk to slip it about that well you know it's one of those things that this miller investigation to find out you know from the new york times right before the president is about to speak that in fact he tried to fire robert

mueller the special counsel investigating the russian affair so that's continuing the we've just come out of the united states of winning a shutdown but very few short fuse to the next crisis i think that's also why we heard any words about immigration at all that that's a topic he wanted to signal to the democrats there's a possible concession now at lots going on when he's already had at every turn in home as we speak thank you so much professor irvin from john f. kennedy institute pleasure talking to you. and we'll have more on president trump's message to investors and trade partners coming up in our business block in just a few minutes but first i want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world. in south korea at least thirty seven people have died in a fire in a hospital in the city of mary on the a fire broke out in the emergency room of the

hospital which also operates as a home for the elderly it's not yet known what caused the blaze. voters in the czech republic have begun casting ballots in the country's two day presidential runoff pro russian anti immigrant incumbent new lushes a month had been favored to win a second term but it's the latest opinion polls point to a neck and neck race when challenger jiri drugs group with. german chancellor angela merkel and her conservatives have begun formal coalition talks with the social democrats the two sides stressed the need for speed in negotiations and set a deadline of february the fourth for wrapping up talks to form a government any coalition deal will still have to be voted on by s.p.d. party members. paris residents living close to the banks of the river san are evacuating their homes amid rising floodwaters the river flowing through the french

capital has been swelling due to heavy rain and water levels are expected to reach their peak over the weekend. turkish turkey's president richard tire bared one has revealed plans to expand operation all of branch despite widespread international criticism well today he announced that turkish forces will head east from the enclave in syria to the iraqi border and kraut wants to drive kurdish fighters out of the region but there is the risk of confrontation with u.s. troops stationed in the town of members who are allied with the kurds while the united states say has raised concern over the operation saying they have asked turkey to limit their military actions but turkey's president appeared to brush aside the objections from washington take a listen to what he said. you know we will continue operation the olive branch which is in its seventh day today until all our goals are achieved. we will then

rid money beach of terrorists. no one should take issue with this because the real owners of man beach aren't these terrorists there are arab brothers there. afterwards we will continue to fight up to the iraqi border until no terrorist is left. so could this mean that nato allies the turkey and the united states might end up facing off in syria and brussels put that very question to nato as number two deputy secretary general rose gottemoeller. madam deputy secretary general you've just returned from turkey where tensions are rising in northwestern syria between two allies of nato are you concerned that this could move from a pill the political class to a military clash i am not worried i've been watching very closely what has been said both in washington and then on crow the two countries seem to be closely

communicating with each other they seem to be paying attention to deconstruction they seem to be paying attention to making sure that the other is informed so i'm not worried of course in general nato is always worried when lives are being lost and that goes for syria turkey that goes for afghanistan iraq anywhere in the world so in that sense we are worried about the conflict the german foreign minister is calling for nato to take a stronger role to sort of facilitate more dialogue between turkey and the u.s. so clearly allies are worried what more can nato do first of all nato is already active on the ground in turkey we are not operating in syria but we are active on the ground in turkey providing for air defense for airborne morning and control for surveillance we are doing what we can as a nato ally to help turkey in their fight against terrorism which has been going on for a long time but in addition to that we have been hearing from the turks here at nato

headquarters we've been getting briefings there's a lot of information flow and allies have the opportunity to ask the questions they need to ask so i do think that that will continue and there will be great interest in this matter in the coming days but it's one thing if the opponent is bashar al assad or terrorist the p.k. k. it's another thing if the united states is on the other end of this operation well i think we need to continue to bear in mind that the two countries have been operating closely together in the fight against in syria and iraq for now many many months and so they are accustomed to paying attention to deconstruction and they're accustomed to to really staying in close communication so that there are actions are transparent to the other and i i only see that continuing thank you very much thank you. deputy secretary general of nato rose gottemoeller speaking to the w.'s tara schultz in brussels or we're going to stay with the theme of syria

a more uplifting one albeit the berlin international film festival opening next month is known for showcasing movies that address the social and political issues of the day while last year's program was devoted to refugees and migration and this year a well known shift from syria and a refugee herself will be cooking for guests at the opening reception and here is her story. conjuring up the taste of damascus bringing the craziness of her home country like fried okra to germany is maliki just marty's passion such year old migrant hopes that she can help germans learn more about her heritage. they drive our food in the city they see it it's good food it's not all the people seem to do we have only falafel and. it's very big maliki has been practicing his skills in the shared kitchen of this

refugee shelter and. she now runs a catering business making the dishes she grew up with. she's also published a cookbook which takes readers into a world of colorful spices. the book subtitled brings a smile to her face it reads recipes of longing for my homeland homeland that's been devastated by civil war maliki's husband made the perilous journey to germany by boat in twenty fifteen she followed one of hundreds of thousands of syrians to arrive that year. but maliki's story is unique she was already somewhat of a star having her suited t.v. cooking show in syria and jordan and she's no stranger to cooking for v.i.p.'s she's prepared a meal for the german chancellor so how does she feel about cooking for four

hundred guests at next month's belly nalla. not only had p. . it's like if you if you do you dream perhaps maliki's recipe for success is how she uses food to build bridges between cultures. dishonest now roger federer has reached the final of the australian open after south korea's chung hey are never tired injured during their semifinal on friday while the defending champ was in complete command of the match leading six one five two for chung quit with four blisters but i will face croatia's maria in tillage in sunday's final that's a repeat of last year's wimbledon final which the swiss star won in straight sets thirty six year old federer is looking to claim his twentieth grand slam title. amazing all right and of course the world economic forum and is the top story in

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